I've felt like sleeping all day, but it's been cold enough at the circ desk to keep me (mostly) awake ( Read more... )

Drafty, drafty, drafty in the library. I'm freezing my butt off.

I still can't walk all that well without the knee brace (and I'm not exactly Fred Astaire with it) and it is impossible to sit comfortably with it on. And I'm feeling feverish for the usual stress + bright lights in an underground library reasons. Calling in sick really isn't an option; we are understaffed as finals approach, and will be on ( Read more... )

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That is one loud mouse ( Read more... )

That sore knee I wrote about last week is still sore; indeed, it is more sore. So today before work, I dropped in at the emergency room, and waited an hour and a half to get it looked at for a minute and a half. The diagnosis is that I've strained something, so the gave me one of those velcro-on knee immobilizers and told me to take advil four ( Read more... )

At work. Tired. Wanna sleep.

Hmm, fire alarm's been going off for the last ten minutes. I wonder if there's a fire ( Read more... )

For cheering oneself up, I heartily recommend this version of The Internationale, by the Japanese band Soul Flower Mononoke Summit. Critical Montages says it's the most festive rendition ever, and who am I to argue? Though I would have liked to have heard the steel band version that played at C.L.R. James's funeral. And somewhere, someone has ( Read more... )

Last Wednesday through this Sunday, the library closed at six, and I had to adjust my schedule. This meant getting up before noon on several days; not my favorite thing, but something I do often enough. What really sucked, though, was that the library was only open from noon to six on both Saturday and Sunday, so I had to make up for the ( Read more... )